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Light Through the Past

Dr. Cyril Jenkins, and Ancient Faith Ministries

A Survey of Church History

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The Council of Toledo

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2025/06/05

This week Dr. Jenkins examines the council of Toledo of 589, and how the filioque first appeared within the creed, and within the doctrinal standards off the western church.https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium Next issue of Rule of Faith: https://tinyurl.com/RuleofFaith6-1

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The Filioque between St. Augustine and the Council of...

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2025/05/29

This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the 5th and 6th centuries, the period after St. Augustine (d. 430), wherein the Latin west nearly unanimously embraced doctrine of the double procession of the Holy Spirit. But this confession came with no real theological explanation about what exactly this meant. https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium Next issue of Rule of Faith: https://tinyurl.com/RuleofFaith6-1

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The Western Origins of the Filioque

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2025/05/22

This episode Dr. Jenkins begins untangling how the filioque arose in the West. It is a long, strange trip.https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium To subscribe to The Rule of Faith: https://stbasilcotc.org/journal/

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Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian,...

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2025/05/15

As we contiue our look at the question of the Schism, we pick up with the matter of Theology proper, that is, how do we think and speak of God in Himself, as opposed to how God works in Creation and Redemption, and how this impacts the question of the Filioque.https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium To subscribe to The Rule of Faith: https://stbasilcotc.org/journal/

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An Introduction to the Schism, Part 2

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2025/05/08

Building off of last week's episode, Dr. Jenkins continues discussing the preconditions of the schism, the geographical, cultural, historical, and linguistic concerns that fed into the schism, though certainly didn't create it.The links for the two conferences this Fall with the St. Basil Center. https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025 Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium To subscribe to The Rule of Faith: https://stbasilcotc.org/journal/

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An Introduction to the Schism

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2025/05/01

Prompted by thoughts on the ecclesiology of Pope St. Gregory the Dialogist, this episode begins a long discussion of the history of the schism: what it is, what's involved, and how it happened.The links for the two conferences this Fall with the St. Basil Center. https://tinyurl.com/Doxamoot2025 https://tinyurl.com/OrthEd2025

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The Trail of the Papacy: Calculating Pascha

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2025/04/24

Dr. Jenkins begins a discussion of the power and prerogative of the bishops of Rome, looking at the second-century Quartodeciman controversy over the date of Pascha. This controversy marks the first interaction of the bishops of Rome with the Churches of the eastern Mediterranean.Byzantine course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

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The Betrayal of St. Benedict

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2025/04/17

Finishing his look at the Rule of St. Benedict, this week Dr. Jenkins explores how St. Benedict's vision of the monastic life came off the rails and morphed into something he had no intention for in the centuries following his death in the Latin west.Dr. Jenkins on Byzantine Empre: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

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St. Benedict and the Pursuit of God

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2025/04/10

Dr. Jenkins continues his look at St. Benedict, this episode focusing on the goal of the monastic life, the attaining of God.For the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

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St. Benedict's Abbot

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2025/04/03

This episode Dr. Jenkins continues his look at St. Benedict's Rule treating the place of the Abbot, his authority, duties, and obligations, and most importantly, the place he holds in St. Benedict's monastery.For the Video of the Benedictine Monastery: https://tinyurl.com/BenedictineOrthodox For the Audio Book on St. Patrick: https://tinyurl.com/StPatrickAudio For the Audio Book on Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History: https://tinyurl.com/EusebAudio And for the Byzantine Course:

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St. Benedict and the Work of God

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2025/03/27

For St. Benedict, that most necessary thing a monk could do was pray, what he called the work of God (Opus Dei), adn this episode Dr. Jenkins unpacks exactly what that looked like in a Benedictine monaster.For the Video of the Benedictine Monastery: https://tinyurl.com/BenedictineOrthodox For the Audio Book on St. Patrick: https://tinyurl.com/StPatrickAudio For the Audio Book on Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History: https://tinyurl.com/EusebAudio And for the Byzantine Course:

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St. Benedict's Monastic World

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2025/03/20

Dr. Jenkins continues his investigation of Latin monasticism by at last turning to the man most responsible for its shape, St. Benedict of Nursia.You can find Dr. Jenkins course at https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

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Pangur Bán the Mousing Monastic Cat

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2025/03/13

This episode Dr. Jenkins concludes his discussion of early Irish Christianity but noting some possible links between the the earliest Irish Christians and influences on them that semm peculiar to eastern Mediterranean.For Dr. Jenkins new course on Byzantium: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium For Connie Marshner's Monastery and High Cross: https://tinyurl.com/MonasteryHighCross

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St. Patrick and the Druids

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2025/03/06

This week Dr. Jenkins continues his discussion of the life of St. Patrick speaking, inter alia, about his confrontations with the Druids.On the Byzantine Course: https://tinyurl.com/LuxchristiByzantium

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The World & Early Life of St. Patrick

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2025/02/27

Dr. Jenkins continues his investigation of western Monasticism by looking at the life of St. Patrick of Armagh (Ireland). Though a monk, St. Patrick is better known for his missionary work among the Irish, a people who once had been his masters.

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St. Martin of Tours & the Beginning of Latin Monasticism

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2025/02/20

This episode, beginning our podcast's fourth year, Dr. Jenkins begins our look at monasticism in the Latin west.

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The Troubled Birth of Asia Minor's Monasticism

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2025/02/13

This episode Dr. Jenkins looks at the beginnings of monasticism in Asia Minor, with whom we rightly associate St. Basil the Great, but who was inspired by the wayward Eustathios of Sebastea.

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The Monastic Communities of Egypt

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2025/02/06

This episode Dr. Jenkins continues his survey of the history of early monasticism, looking at the several monastic communities of anchorites and hermits that made up the world of Egyptian monasticism.

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The Pachomian Shift in Monasticism

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2025/01/30

Dr. Jenkins continues he discussion of the history of monasticism. This week Dr. Jenkins looks at the shift in monasticism that the introduction of Pachomius's early fourth-century reforms entailed.

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St. Antony the Pattern of Monks

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2025/01/23

St. Pachomius called St. Antony a pattern for those who pursued the life in the desert. This episode Dr. Jenkins unpacks what this means.

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